Effect of crabapple pruning on Sphaeropsis and speck rot incidence

Author: Yong-Ki (Richard) Kim, Mike Willett, Tom Auvil

Published: 2014

Summary: The overall objective of this study was to generate practical information regarding the impact on commercial cultivars of removal of inoculum from infected 'Manchurian' crabapple pollinizers in commercial orchards as part of a postharvest decay IPM program.

Keywords:

• Apple
• Sphaeropsis pyriputrescens
• Phacidiopycnis washingtonensis
• Crabapple pollinizers